Wil Wheaton Quotes

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it's so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

I was bullied from the age of 11 onwards. I was always much bigger than the other kids. I spoke nicely, didn't swear, and I refused to try to fit in and be like everyone else. People assumed I thought I was above everyone else.

There was a time in my life when I wasn't popular and accepted by kids in school. I was made fun of with braces and kinky hair and being from a multicultural family, et cetera.

I was called fried eggs and all that at school. Size does matter.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

I was bullied a lot as a kid in school from kindergarten up to third grade. I know what it feels like to be left out and to want to be different - more so, to want to not be different and want to just fit in.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

Sarfati. That's my real last name. I don't use it a lot because I got 'Lea So-fatty,' 'Lea So-farty' at school.

Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids who made fun of my perceived stupidity, I was placed in the 'dummy class.'

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

I went to high school, and I started getting bullied because I was very weird. I mean, freshman year I went to school in a pirate suit - I just didn't care. I'm not like the cool girls - I'm the other girl. The one that's basically a nerd, but proud of that.

When you're a little fat boy in any kind of school, you're just persecuted something awful.

In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

I remember dealing with bullies in high school and being put down because I was different.

I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds' daughter!' And I didn't like it; it made me different from other people, and I wanted to be the same.

Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.

I was bullied about everything, from the way I looked to the fact that my father had been a dancer.

I wasn't interested in football. It made me different. I wore glasses, had bad hair, a funny name, you name it.

I was incredibly shy and insecure as a child. I was bullied. I was dyslexic. I had an immigrant single parent. I was the opposite of that kind of ideal, cool girl thing.

Everyone can relate to being bullied. Everyone can relate to wanting to fit in and being part of a clique.

At school, I felt out of place. I was bullied. I would think, 'These kids don't like me, they don't accept me,' but I felt like in the entertainment industry, I would fit in.

Whenever I used to do sports at school, there were those children who were picked last. I just wasn't picked at all.